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Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story” continues to be a nonviolence teaching tool and an influential historical account in the United States and worldwide. The 16-page comic book ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Elder Matthew S. Holland speak at pastor emeritus service at the Third Baptist Church in San ...
Springfield, Illinois is hosting a variety of Juneteenth events from June 12-19, including a pageant, panel discussions, and ...
Among the less recognizable buildings slated for potential sale were several bearing the names of civil rights leaders, ...
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy ...
Free tickets are available at go.uis.edu/Juneteenth. • “The Nature of Freedom,” a readers theater presentation featuring the ...
Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...
Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.
The honors bestowed upon Blake in his later years were many and well deserved, including having his name on a park and a ...
Alabama Values’ Juneteenth event launched “Been Banned” to resist historical erasure and celebrate Black cultural traditions.